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If you've spent much time scrolling through Oregon news lately, you've probably seen some version of the same strange story. A reservoir is being lowered. A dam is spilling more water. Fish are dying. A town…
Oregonians hoping to spend Halloween night listening to ghost stories beneath the beam of Heceta Head Lighthouse will have to make other plans this year. The Heceta Head Halloween Haunt scheduled for October 31, 2026, has…
Oregon voters narrowly approved one of the most restrictive gun-control measures in the country in 2022, adding a government permit requirement for people who want to legally purchase a firearm and banning magazines capable of holding…
A quiet campground tucked into Oregon’s Coast Range has been temporarily closed after a mother black bear and her cub began aggressively searching for food and behaving in ways that raised concerns for visitor safety. The…
More than 10 months have passed since Umatilla tribal elder Wesley Dixon Jones disappeared under circumstances that have never been fully explained. His family still doesn't know where he is, no major breakthrough has been publicly…
A four-day effort off the Oregon Coast ended with a young humpback whale finally swimming free after becoming trapped in thousands of feet of fishing gear, but the rescue came with a heartbreaking complication. Marine mammal…
A vegetation fire is burning near the Jasper Road and Mount Vernon Road area of Springfield Wednesday afternoon, with early reports placing the fire at approximately 3 acres. The fire was reported Wednesday, August 12, in…
There was a time when convincing someone to move to Oregon did not require much of a sales pitch. You could point toward the Cascades, the Oregon Coast, the Columbia River Gorge, Bend’s high desert, the…
Wildfire conditions around Mount Hood intensified again Tuesday as the massive Grasshopper Fire pushed farther across the landscape, evacuation levels expanded near Dufur and Tygh Valley, and a second growing fire south of Mount Hood prompted…
UPDATE: Authorities have identified the person who died Monday evening after falling from South Falls at Silver Falls State Park as 20-year-old Zachary Nicholas Mertens of Burlington, Kentucky. Oregon State Police said Mertens entered a closed…
Travel conditions are slowly improving east of Prineville as portions of U.S. Highway 26 reopen following weeks of wildfire activity from the massive Rowe Creek Complex. The highway is not fully open yet, but the closed…
Much of Western Oregon is waking up to surprisingly clean air Tuesday morning, but cross the Cascades and the picture changes fast. Wildfire smoke continues to hang over portions of Central and Eastern Oregon on August…
